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Special operation to check for safety hazards in the port and shipping systems

Category: Governmental News
Published: Monday, 15 August 2011 14:12

Recently, a number of serious accidents have happened in the transportation on water. To draw lessons from such accident and prevent similar happenings, a two-month special operation has been launched to check for safety hazards in the port and shipping systems of Ningbo and citizens can report any such hazard in a variety of ways.

It is learned that these hazards fall into the following five major categories: enterprises do not have the necessary conditions for safe production stipulated in the state safe production law or trade standards or unsafe factors are present among the staff, in the environment, facilities and equipment, which may lead to accidents, casualty and loss of property; construction projects without safety facilities or whose safety facilities have not been officially examined, inspected and approved but are put into use and production; the operation, transportation and storage of dangerous items in violation of related laws and regulations or trade standards, which may lead to casualty and loss of property; enterprises concealing or falsely reporting deaths and injuries in accidents; other factors that may endanger the society or the production of enterprises leading to casualty and loss of property.

Citizens may report such hazards via telephone, mail or e-mail: 87834812 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., or 106, Wangga road, Jiangdong district (postal code: 315041). Authorities will look into the case within 20 work days and, if reports are proved true, reporters will be awarded ¥200, ¥500, and ¥800 accordingly.